News published on Federal Newswire in January 2015

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: CDC Media Relations 406-639-3286 DHS Office of Public Affairs 202-282-8010 On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will remove Mali from the list of Ebola-affected nations subject to enhanced visa and port-of-entry screening.

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: State Department Office of Press Relations 202-647-2492 DHS Office of Public Affairs 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security and Department of State have launched the next stage of an aggressive campaign to make clear the national security, border security, and public safety priorities that are now in effect, and to clarify the criteria for filing requests for deferred action under the Executive Actions recently announced by President Obama.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: The government has intervened in two lawsuits against a Florida cardiologist, Dr. Asad Qamar, and his physician group, the Institute for Cardiovascular Excellence PLLC (ICE), alleging that Qamar and ICE billed Medicare for medically unnecessary peripheral artery interventions and paid kickbacks to patients ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: Defendants Charged with Conspiracy to Violate the Neutrality Act and Conspiracy to Possess Firearms in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence United States Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: Five Others Previously Sentenced to Substantial Prison Terms for Participation in the Same Tor-Network-Based Child Pornography Website The former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison today for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and related charges in connection with his membership in a Tor-network-based child pornography website.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: Defendant Harbored Undocumented Mexican Migrant for Labor on Tobacco Farm The Department of Justice announced today that Pedra Perez-Gumeta, 52, of Lexington, Kentucky, was sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison by United States Senior District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood for harboring an undocumented ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: MONROEVILLE, N.J. — Cassaday Farms LLC has agreed to pay a total of $117,130 in back wages and $57,870 in civil money penalties to settle charges leveled by the U.S. Department of Labor that the business unlawfully rejected 13 qualified U.S. workers, who applied for seasonal employment, and showed preferential treatment to H-2A workers , in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Cassaday Farms is located at 401 Pine Tavern Road in Monroeville.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: More than two dozen violations at Shippensburg site yield $152,912 in fines SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — For the eighth time since 2011, Domestic Casting's iron foundry has been investigated, cited, and fined by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for not protecting its ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: Saehaesung Alabama Inc. opened its LaFayette plant in July 2011.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: ST. MARYS, Ohio — Three employees were exposed to dangerous levels of lead , arsenic , iron oxide and copper particles and fumes while torch-cutting steel at a scrapyard operated by OmniSource St. Marys. Their employer, CS Metals Inc., did not provide required personal protective equipment or health ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: OSHA fines company more than $170K for willfully putting employees at risk PEORIA, Ill. —— Workers at Hagerty Brothers Co. were exposed to dangerous levels of lead and copper dust during brass finishing and grinding work at its Peoria facility, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: Company fails to provide fall protection on job site PIASA, Ill. — A 33-year-old worker fell to his death because his employer, Mid-State Construction & Roofing Inc., failed to provide fall protection. The employee was installing roofing materials at Southwest High School in Piasa on Aug. 4, 2014, when ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: EDGERTON, Wis. — Diaz Roofing LLC allowed four employees to reshingle a residential rooftop without required fall protection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. As a result, OSHA cited the roofing company for one willful and one serious safety violation with proposed penalties of $73,080. The company has been cited previously 11 times for lack of fall protection.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today announced the 17 public members who will serve on the new Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities, a key provision of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. — Preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration indicates that 40 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation's mines in 2014, two fewer than in the previous year.* Coal mining deaths dropped from 20 in 2013 to 16 in 2014, the lowest annual number of coal mining deaths ever recorded in the United States. The previous record low was 18 in 2009.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

News Release: Date of Action: Dec. 23, 2014 Type of Action: Complaint Names of Defendants: Mattie Kon and Blitz Systems Inc. 401(k) Plan.

By DOE Gazette | Jan 5, 2015

The US Energy Department published a nine page rule on Jan. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Jan 5, 2015

The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Jan 5, 2015

The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Jan 5, 2015

The US Transportation Department published a five page rule on Jan. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.